Big-Boned Figures Not Related to Expansion of the Universe
Newscientist.com news service reported the findings of Richard Price, a physicist at the university of Texas at Brownsville, to the horror of all weight conscious people: “Your waistline may be spreading, but you can’t blame it on the expansion of the universe.”
“Since atoms are made up mostly of empty space, with electrons ‘orbiting’ the nucleus at distances typically many hundreds of times its diameter, it seemed reasonable to ask whether the electrons would be dragged away from the nucleus by the stretching of space. Price decided to examine the simplest system, that of a hydrogen atom, with one negative electron orbiting a positive proton. He found if the force involved – electromagnetic in the case of atoms – binding the system together is strong than a certain critical value, the system will be entirely unaffected by the cosmological expansion.”
Back on those treadmills folks, that growing belly of yours is not inevitable.